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Former location of Seaview pier On 27th December 1951, the residents of Seaview woke up to discover 100 feet of the decking of the beautiful Seaview Pier had been washed away by the sea. Most of us know that Shanklin...

A marine flare left out with household recycling caused a fire at the Isle of Wight Council’s waste treatment plant on Forest Road earlier this month. The fire was contained quickly due to the prompt action of the control room...

A Northwood business unit could soon be transformed from a former fish wholesaler to an MOT and tyre centre. The former home of Phillips Fine Foods, next to Northwood Garage on Newport Road, could become an MOT testing centre and...

Thrust2 was a jet-propelled vehicle – built and designed on the Isle of Wight – which held the world land speed record for 14 years from 4th October 1983 to 25th September 1997. Amazingly, the story of Thrust2 began when...

A West Wight community has been given just 6 months to save its beloved school building. Yarmouth Primary School pupils have now finished their final term at their building on Mill Road and will return in January to a newly-built...

An extension to a cliff tunnel — which runs underneath a path in Lake and emerges as part of the cliff face overlooking Sandown Bay — has been approved by the Isle of Wight Council. It comes after fears of...

Monday 12th December – Friday 16th December 2022 Sam Allenby, 38, of Cockleton Lane, Gurnard pleaded guilty to assaulting a person thereby occasioning them actual bodily harm. He was made subject to a 12-month community order with 50 hours of...

(Illustrative) On a Sunday evening, 2 days before Christmas in 1883, the vicar in charge of St Catherine's Church in Ventnor, Revd Willan, demanded the keys to the vestry and attempted to lock the doors to prevent members of the...

This week's Readers' Gallery is a bumper Christmas edition and the penultimate of 2022!  Apologies for last week's missing gallery... technical issues prevented this for being published. We aim to publish the last Readers' Gallery of 2022 on Friday 30th...

Southern Vectis is urging Christmas and New Year’s Eve revellers at bars and restaurants across the Isle of Wight to leave their cars at home.  Backing Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary’s anti-drink driving ‘Operation Holly’ campaign, the local bus...